On this day: 13 March
Events, births and deaths on 13 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Sofia Gubaidulina
- Deaths · Raúl Grijalva
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Hilary Putnam
- Events · March 2016 Ankara bombing
- Events · 2016 Grand-Bassam shootings
100 years ago1926
- Births · Carlos Roberto Reina
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 17
- 1567Battle of Oosterweel — 1567 battle of the Eighty Years' War
- 1741Battle of Cartagena de Indias — 1741 battle during the War of Jenkins' Ear
- 1811Battle of Lissa — 1811 naval action in the Adriatic Sea
- 1881assassination of Alexander II of Russia — Regicide
- 1884Siege of Khartoum — 1885 offensive by Mahdist Forces against British and Egyptian troops
- 1920Kapp Putsch — attempted coup in the Weimar Republic
- 1938Anschluss — annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938
- 1954Battle of Dien Bien Phu — The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
- 1964murder of Kitty Genovese — 1964 murder in New York City, associated with the bystander effect
- 1974Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802 — March 1974 plane crash near Bishop, California
- 1992Erzincan earthquake of 1992 — 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Erzincan in eastern Turkey on March 13, 1992
- 1996Dunblane school massacre — 1996 mass shooting at Dunblane Primary School, Dunblane, United Kingdom
- 1997Phoenix Lights — light phenomenon that occurred on March 13 1997 over Arizona and Nevada, United States
- 2012Sierre coach crash — traffic accident
- 2016March 2016 Ankara bombing — terrorist attack
- 20162016 Grand-Bassam shootings — Terrorist attack in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast on 13 March 2016
- 2020shooting of Breonna Taylor — shooting during a drug raid in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Births · 60
- 1372(Julian date)Louis I, Duke of Orléans — French prince, regent of France
- 1593Georges de La Tour — Lorrain painter (1593–1652)
- 1615Innocent XII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1691 to 1700
- 1720Charles Bonnet — Genevan philosopher and naturalist (1720–1793)
- 1733(Julian date)Joseph Priestley — English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
- 1741Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790, (1741-1790).
- 1763Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune — French general (1763-1815)
- 1764Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834 (1764–1845)
- 1781Karl Friedrich Schinkel — Prussian architect, city planner and painter (1781–1841)
- 1798Abigail Fillmore — First Lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853
- 1800Mustafa Reşid Paşa — Ottoman diplomat (1800-1858)
- 1815James Curtis Hepburn — American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
- 1825Hans Gude — Norwegian painter (1825–1903)
- 1855Percival Lowell — American astronomer (1855-1916)
- 1860Hugo Wolf — Austrian composer (1860–1903)
- 1864(Julian date)Alexej von Jawlensky — Russian painter (1865–1941)
- 1874Ellery Harding Clark — American track and field athlete (1874–1949)
- 1884Hugh Walpole — British writer (1884-1941)
- 1888Paul Morand — French writer (1888-1976)
- 1897(Julian date)Yeghishe Charents — Armenian poet (1897–1937)
- 1898Henry Hathaway — American film director and producer (1898-1985)
- 1899John Hasbrouck Van Vleck — American physicist (1899–1980)
- 1899Pancho Vladigerov — Bulgarian musician (1899–1978)
- 1900Giorgos Seferis — Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971)
- 1911L. Ron Hubbard — American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
Deaths · 60
- 1202(Julian date)Mieszko III the Old — High Duke of Poland (1121-1202)
- 1271(Julian date)Henry of Almain — English noble
- 1403(Julian date)Muhammad Sultan Mirza — timurid military commander
- 1447Shah Rukh — Timurid ruler
- 1573(Julian date)Michel de l'Hôpital — French statesman
- 1619Richard Burbage — British actor and theatre owner (1567–1619)
- 1711Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux — French poet and critic (1636–1711)
- 1719Johann Friedrich Böttger — Saxon alchemist (1682-1719)
- 1800Nana Fadnavis — historical Indian statesman
- 1808Christian VII of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway (1749-1808)
- 1823John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent — Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1735-1823)
- 1824Maria Luisa I, Duchess of Lucca — Spanish Royal
- 1842Henry Shrapnel — British Army general
- 1854Jean-Baptiste de Villèle — Plantation and slave owner, Prime Minister of France (1773-1854)
- 1879Adolf Anderssen — German chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess champion (1851-1858, 1860-1865, 1867-1871), chess publicist
- 1901Benjamin Harrison — President of the United States, 1889-1893 (1833–1901)
- 1906Susan B. Anthony — American women's rights activist (1820–1906)
- 1936Francis Bell — New Zealand politician (1851-1936)
- 1938Clarence Darrow — American lawyer and politician (1857–1938)
- 1943Stephen Vincent Benét — American poet, short story writer, novelist (1898–1943)
- 1953Johan Laidoner — Estonian general and politician (1884-1953)
- 1957George Allison — English football manager (1883–1957)
- 1965Fan S. Noli — Albanian politician (1882-1965)
- 1965Vittorio Jano — Hungarian automobile designer (1891-1965)
- 1971Rockwell Kent — American artist (1882-1971)
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